UK schools 'to be hit with first real-time funding cuts in 20 years'

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February 27, 2017 at 03:46AM

Institute for Fiscal Studies warns spending per pupil is to fall 6.5% over course of this parliament, with sixth-formers facing continued squeeze on budgets

Schools are facing the first real-terms cuts to their funding since the mid-1990s, a leading thinktank has warned.

Spending per pupil is to fall 6.5% by 2019-20, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), although it added that school funding had been well protected over the past two decades.

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